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A former airline pilot turned safety researcher explains the shocking lack of real-world testing to keep women safe in the air and on our roads.
As history has shown, publicly speculating about a disaster when there is so little evidence available is more than just unhelpful.
Hundreds are dead after a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed into a residential building moments after takeoff.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has a very good safety record.
Aviation safety is about more than pilot skill—boardroom decisions and regulatory failures play a key role in preventing disasters.
A Traffic Collision Avoidance System – or TCAS – isn’t designed to work at low altitudes.
Jim Croce’s brief time in the national spotlight was enough to put a bevy of songs in heavy rotation on radio stations – and on stage in the hands of a lengthy A-list of fellow musicians.
Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, reportedly died when a private jet he was said to be on crashed on Aug. 23, 2023, killing all 10 people on board.
The lesson in the presumed death of the mercenary leader two months after his mutiny against Putin: Don’t make yourself an enemy of Russia’s leader.
The bottom line is air travel is very safe – much safer than road travel. But that doesn’t stop us from wondering…
A tragic plane crash has claimed at least 68 lives in Nepal – the latest in a string of aviation disasters in a country grappling with improving the safety of its flight industry.
Industry has renewed confidence after Boeing made commitments to redesign aircraft and train pilots
Air travel in Indonesia is a lot safer than a decade ago.
High-profile rail and aerospace disasters of recent years have been the deadly consequence of the systematic erosion of safety precautions due to deregulation.
The downing of Flight PS752 suggests Iran’s missile technology has grown increasingly sophisticated. But its ability to responsibly control that technology has not.
Crash investigators never give black boxes to aircraft makers but involve them in the process.
Key evidence from the wreckage can show if the plane experienced engine trouble or was hit by a missile. But first, Iran must decide how much outside help it will accept in an investigation.
More than 40 people died in the May 5, 2019 crash, and reports indicate that passengers taking luggage with them may have slowed the evacuation. So what do we need to do to stop such behaviour?
A pilot and researcher knows that airplanes are full of sensors – and finds a way onboard computers can use the data to detect equipment failure and tell pilots what’s a real emergency and what’s not.
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Associate Professor/Discipline Leader Accident Investigation and Forensics, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Aviation, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing and Communications, The Open University
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Lecturer in Aviation, University of Southern Queensland
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Director of the Civil Safety and Security Unit (CSSU), University of Leicester
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Director of Transport Systems, Professor of Safety & Accident Investigation, Cranfield University
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Associate Professor of Aviation and the Environment, Cranfield University
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Professor, School of Humanities, Griffith University
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Professor in the Political Economy of Asia, SOAS, University of London
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Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering, University of Manchester
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Professor in Physical Oceanography, Bangor University
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Professor of Practice for Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor, Purdue University
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Senior Lecturer in Aviation Management, Coventry University
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Doctoral Researcher in Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham